The act of one who tamps; specifically, the act of filling up a hole in a rock, or the branch of a mine, for the purpose of blasting the rock or exploding the mine
Using a rake in concrete work to jab aggregate down and to work out any air bubbles
to plug up with clay, earth, dry sand, sod, or other material, as a hole bored in a rock, in order to prevent the force of the explosion from being misdirected
In blasting, to plug up with clay, earth, dry sand, sod, or other material, as a hole bored in a rock, in order to prevent the force of the explosion from being misdirected
If you tamp something, you press it down by tapping it several times so that it becomes flatter and more solid. Then I tamp down the soil with the back of a rake Philpott tamped a wad of tobacco into his pipe. tamp down to press or push something down by lightly hitting it several times (Perhaps from tampion, tampin (15-20 centuries), from tampon; TAMPON)